![]() ![]() ![]() Most modern editions go back to the original text, however, and rightly so. Yes! the author of the Monk signs himself a LEGISLATOR! We stare and tremble.”) Lewis seems to have been surprised and hurt by the intensity of the criticism, and he progressively edited the later editions of his novel to remove the more contentious material. (The most famous attack upon him was by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Critical Review: “The author is a man of rank and fortune. ![]() The Monk was a runaway best-seller, but it was also savagely attacked as obscene and blasphemous – not least because, at the time of his novel’s publication, Lewis was a Member of Parliament. Lewis set out to write the “ultimate” Gothic novel, and he certainly succeeded. The Monk was published when Matthew Lewis was only nineteen years old and is very much a young man’s enthusiastic and rather reckless work. So – all care taken, no responsibility accepted! Welcome, all! This time around I will be tutoring Madeline (Squeak圜hu) in Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk, from 1796.įor those of you who are planning on lurking, but who are not familiar with this novel, I feel that I should start by offering a general warning about its contents: this is a novel featuring sex and violence and horror, including several scenes that are fairly shocking and offensive even by modern standards. ![]()
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